In the workplace, your interactions with your colleagues matter. But, ensuring positive and supportive connections between your coworkers can be a tough task. One important aspect of building a healthy and successful partnership is accounting for the different emotions and personality preferences of each person.
In a lighting keynote session at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit, Josh Marcuse, Senior Advisor for Policy Innovation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Department of Defense, demonstrated one tactic to combine brainstorming and teamwork into a successful and effective method to innovate new policies.
In Be Bad First, the opening keynote speech at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit, Andersen explained that you can drive change for yourself and for the world if you get good at acquiring new skills. The key, she argues, is adopting the right strategies for high payoff learning.
Coding boot camps are making it much easier to learn the necessary skills to work as a web developer. Through boot camp courses, government agencies can help their employees learn new, useful skills without having to leave their current jobs.
DoD is working on solutions for a number of challenges that they are certain to encounter in the years to come. Implementing these changes will be difficult and may take a long time, but adapting to today’s obstacles will not be impossible.
Read on to meet the new GovLoop Featured Bloggers, who will be posting once a week for the next three months. We’re excited to introduce them to you – and even more excited to read what they’ll be writing about.
First 5 is on a mission to find the best Microsoft Office suite tips, and we are beginning with Word. These cool little tricks will save time that you did not even know you were wasting.
In a busy work environment, it’s easy to get sucked into a culture of stress and intensity. But ignoring your personal wellbeing can be dangerous. One way to improve your mental health and improve your effectiveness as a leader is to employ mindfulness.
The rise of data has opened new doors for government agencies. Here are five of the most important tasks to consider as your agency seeks to better incorporate data into the decision-making process.
Women employed in technology are facing an uphill battle. The tech community has come a long way toward better supporting and incorporating women into their culture, but there is room for more improvement.